Glance Quotes

446 Glance quotes by 339 unique authors

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they… — Heinrich Heine
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and… — Jean de la Bruyere
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One single glance will conquer all descriptions. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss… — Carl Linnaeus
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and… — Les Dawson
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort… — N. T. Wright
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at… — Ross Parmenter
We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is… — Dave Barry
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if… — Daniel Gilbert
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb
The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the… — Jack Dorsey
And yes, I'll admit, I am jealous. I'm jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of… — Colleen Houck
Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two. — Karlie Kloss
Don't become a random photograph in the eyes of friends, and even your enemies, for each glance at your face will cause a declination of… — Michael Bassey
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?"… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper

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